Paper-bag holder.



No. 662,ll2. Patented Nov. 20, I900. A. E. BRUNSON.

PAPER BAG HOLDER.

Application filed Feb. 5, 1900) (No Model.)

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ABRAM E. BRUNSON, OF MULLINS, SOUTH CAROLINA.

PAPER-BAG HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,1 12, dated November 20, 1900.

Application filed February 8, 1900. Serial No. 4,513. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM E. BRUNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mullins,in the county of Marion and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Paper-Bag Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bag-holders in general, and more particularly to that class designed for holding paper bags in a position and in a manner which will permit the bag to be readily taken from the holder, and which, furthermore, enables the bags to be applied with facility.

A further object of the invention is to provide a construction which will be simple and cheap of manufacture, which may be suspended from the ceiling, and which is adapted to receive cord or twine.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification and in which similar numerals of reference designate like and corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the complete holder with a number of bags of different sizes attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the holder and illustrating the means for attaching the bags. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of the holder and showing the position of the bag with respect thereto.

Referring now to the drawings, the holder of the present invention comprises a rectangular frame including side rails 5 and 6 and end pieces 7 and S, which are rigidly connected to lie in a common plane, and this frame is provided with suspending means whereby it may be hung from the ceiling of the room to lie horizontal. This suspending means comprises eyes 9 and 10 in the upper faces of the rails 5 and 6, respectively, and at each end thereof, and connected with these eyes are chain sections 11 and 12, which lead to a common ring 13. The chain sections 11 and 12 are of equal length, and cords 14 are attached to the rings 13 and are secured to hooks or other attaching means in the ceiling. Engaged with the rail 5 and at the under side thereof is a series of screw-eyes 15, which are properly spaced, and a second series of screw-hooks 16 is engaged with the rail 6 at its under side, the hooks and eyes of the two series being oppositely disposed in pairs, and the eyes of one series lying with their greatest dimensions longitudinally of the rail 5, while the hooks lie in the same relation to the rail 6. For each pair of the hooks and eyes there is provided a pin 18, having an eye 19 at one end, and each of these hooks is of such length that one end may be engaged with an eye and the opposite end, or the eye of the opposite end, at the same time engaged with the corresponding hook 16.

The bags (shown at 20) which are to be engaged with this holder are each provided with a perforation adjacent its upper edge, so positioned that all the perforations of the bags of one size will aline, and in engaging the bags with the holder a pin 18 is first passed through these alining perforations and the straight end of the pin is then inserted in a proper eye 15, after which the eye 19 at the opposite end of the pin is engaged with the corresponding hook 16, the bags being thus firmly held in place, while the construction permits the ready removal of the entire bunch of bags when desired.

As illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, various bunches of bags of different sizes may be threaded upon the pins 18 and thus held in a position to permit them to be grasped one at a time, and thus be torn from the pin, it being understood, of course, that when a single bag is pulled the pin 18 tears readily through the narrow web above the perforation in the bag.

Upon the rails 5 and 6, and preferably midway of their ends, is secured a box 21, which is adapted to receive a ball of cord, the free end of which hangs downwardly and in a position to be readily grasped when the cord is to be used. The box 21 being secured to both rails 5 and 6, it acts as a brace therefor, the extreme iigidity of the box forming a more rigid brace than is afforded by a simple crosspiece.

It will of course be understood that in the manufacture of the present device the frame may have any size and proportions desired and that any suitable number of hooks and eyes may be attached thereto to accommodate the pins to hold the desired number of bunches of bags, and it will be further understood that instead of initially perforating the bag the pin may be pushed throngheach bag, and thus form its own perforation.

Various changes in the specific structure shown may also be made without departing from the present invention.

What is claimed is 1. A holder for paper bags of various sizes, comprising parallel side rails having their ends connected by cross-pieces, a series of eyes engaged with the under side of one of the side rails, a series of hooks engaged with i the under side of the opposite rail, aseries of pins, each of which has an eye at one end for engagement with a hook, said pins being adapted to lie in the eyes corresponding to the hooks with which the pins are engaged, a cord-holding, box secured upon the'side rails midway of their ends to brace them, and hangers connected with the side rails adjacent their ends.

2. A holder for paper bagsof various siz'es',-

comprising parallel side rails having their ends connected by cross-pieces, a series of eyes engaged with the under side of one of the side rails, a series of hooks engaged with 5 the under side of the opposite side rail, a series of pins, each of which has an eye at one end for engagement with a hook, said pins being adapted to lie in the eyes corresponding to the hooks with which the pins are engaged, a cord-holding box secured upon the side rails to brace them; and :means for supporting the rails.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

AB'RAM E. BRUN SON.

\Vitnesses:

D. E. GODBULD, T. L. SMITH. 

